about check number heuristics

Ethy H. Brito ethy.brito at inexo.com.br
Tue Jan 23 07:33:19 EST 2007


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:21:30 -0500
Benoit Grégoire <bock at step.polymtl.ca> wrote:

> > As an example, my bank writes (OFX file) the check numbers as "000123" and
> > GC uses "123". How to overcome this?
> 
> There is not much to do on the OFX side, the check number is defined as 16 
> ascii characters, so 000123 is perfectly valid, and different from 123.  So 
> the only advice I can give your is to enter 000123 in Gnucash as well.

I already did that. However there is a little problem: GC autoincrement
does not respect that and suggests "124" as the next check number instead
of "000124" which in turn break the importation again.

Maybe it is a bug, isn't it?

Ethy




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